O Pioneers!

ISBN-10: 0679743626

ISBN-13: 9780679743620

Edition: N/A

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One of America7;s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel-the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America7;s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather7;s novel is a uniquely American epic. Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father7;s farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather7;s great heroines-all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather7;s books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: 0;The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.1; Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage. From the Paperback edition.

Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years.

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Note on the Text

The Text of O Pioneers!

Contexts and Backgrounds

Autobiographical and Biographical Essays

From Willa Cather: A Memoir

Willa Cather Talks of Work

The Vision of a Successful: Fiction Writer

Interview with Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather

Daughter of the Frontier

Preface

My First Novels

Literary Contexts

Peter

A Wagner Matinee

Review of Kate Chopin's The Awakening

[On Henry James]

From The Lesson of the Master

From The House of Mirth

The Willing Muse

Letters to Willa Cather

Miss Jewett

A White Heron

From Alexander's Bridge

The Bohemian Girl

[On Walt Whitman]

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

The American West

Letters of Mattie and Uriah Oblinger

Nature Frowns on Mankind

From The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle

Swedes in Nebraska

Bohemians in Nebraska

Bohemian Cemeteries in Nebraska

From Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism

Criticism

Contemporary Reviews

O Pioneers! A New Heroine and a New Country Appear

A Good Novel

Books of the Day

Review of O Pioneers!

Review of O Pioneers!

[Review of O Pioneers!]

A Novel without a Hero

Modern Critical Views

[Willa Cather and the Epic]

[Biblical and Literary Contexts in O Pioneers!]

[Gender and Creativity in O Pioneers!]

Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and the Era of Scientific Sexology: A Dialogue between Frontiers

[O Pioneers! and the Cultural Politics of the Progressive Era]

The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!

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